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Phyllis Chesler and Alice Walker are both well-known feminists. Chesler is the author of many non-fiction tomes, while Walker is the celebrated writer of fiction such as The Color Purple.
Chesler is a supporter of Israel, and as such, has found herself on the outside of the mainstream of leftist feminism in recent years.
Walker is a supporter of Obama.
From Pajama's Media:
Dear Alice:
Hello old friend. As you know, I have loved your writings, (I still do), both your novels and your poems and above all, your golden success. You also once blessed me personally back when you alone chose to believe my allegations of rape at the hands of a black “brother” and you reached out to me privately when our white feminist sisters did not do so. You were there for me. You told me to tell the truth, that nothing else mattered as much.
Therefore, I will honor and “hear” you even if—especially if—we disagree on particular subjects. You believe that Barack Obama can somehow save our country. You are moved by his oratory and character. I am bowed beneath the weight of tribal sorrows and fear for our country and our world no matter who becomes the next American President.
But Alice: In your piece, why oh why do you single out Israel as a wrong-doer and not Saudi Arabia? Israel but not the ethnic Arab Muslims of Sudan who are perpetrating genocide against black African Muslims and black Christians and who are mass raping black African girls and women? Israel and not Rwanda; Israel and not Iran, Libya, Algeria, Afghanistan, China, or North Korea, for their grieivous crimes against humanity?
Why, Alice, why?
You have got to know that anti-Semitism is also racism. Indeed, today, anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism and this pains me as much as the white racism and sexism of our feminist sisters once pained us both.
Reverend Martin Luther King’s oratory and nobility also thrilled me. I was part of the Northern Student Movement. I volunteered in Harlem. I quickly ran into a rank, thuggish, increasingly criminal style of sexism against women, both white and black, and it drove me out of the civil rights movement at that time. It was becoming a movement that increasingly despised white volunteers, Jewish volunteers, and one in which black men viewed white women mainly as sexual prey.
Alice: We each have scars that ache when it rains.
I pray that you consider re-considering the ease with which you reflexively scapegoat Israel for the crimes of so many rogue nations. And if you do, perhaps you might set an example for Obama who perhaps became accustomed to a Jew-blaming culture in his Chicago Church.
Yours in struggle,Phyllis
P.S. Do you really think our imperfect America is as bad as most other imperfect countries? And Cuba? It is a totalitarian prison camp which has persecuted its own, including artists, politicals, homosexuals. Are you so charmed by Castro’s dancing that you have forgotten all this?
I'm afraid Chesler will find there is no water to be drawn from the well, only wormwood.
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Phyllis Chesler's Open Letter To Alice Walker
Phyllis Chesler and Alice Walker are both well-known feminists. Chesler is the author of many non-fiction tomes, while Walker is the celebrated writer of fiction such as The Color Purple.
Chesler is a supporter of Israel, and as such, has found herself on the outside of the mainstream of leftist feminism in recent years.
Walker is a supporter of Obama.
From Pajama's Media:
Dear Alice:
Hello old friend. As you know, I have loved your writings, (I still do), both your novels and your poems and above all, your golden success. You also once blessed me personally back when you alone chose to believe my allegations of rape at the hands of a black “brother” and you reached out to me privately when our white feminist sisters did not do so. You were there for me. You told me to tell the truth, that nothing else mattered as much.
Therefore, I will honor and “hear” you even if—especially if—we disagree on particular subjects. You believe that Barack Obama can somehow save our country. You are moved by his oratory and character. I am bowed beneath the weight of tribal sorrows and fear for our country and our world no matter who becomes the next American President.
But Alice: In your piece, why oh why do you single out Israel as a wrong-doer and not Saudi Arabia? Israel but not the ethnic Arab Muslims of Sudan who are perpetrating genocide against black African Muslims and black Christians and who are mass raping black African girls and women? Israel and not Rwanda; Israel and not Iran, Libya, Algeria, Afghanistan, China, or North Korea, for their grieivous crimes against humanity?
Why, Alice, why?
You have got to know that anti-Semitism is also racism. Indeed, today, anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism and this pains me as much as the white racism and sexism of our feminist sisters once pained us both.
Reverend Martin Luther King’s oratory and nobility also thrilled me. I was part of the Northern Student Movement. I volunteered in Harlem. I quickly ran into a rank, thuggish, increasingly criminal style of sexism against women, both white and black, and it drove me out of the civil rights movement at that time. It was becoming a movement that increasingly despised white volunteers, Jewish volunteers, and one in which black men viewed white women mainly as sexual prey.
Alice: We each have scars that ache when it rains.
I pray that you consider re-considering the ease with which you reflexively scapegoat Israel for the crimes of so many rogue nations. And if you do, perhaps you might set an example for Obama who perhaps became accustomed to a Jew-blaming culture in his Chicago Church.
Yours in struggle,Phyllis
P.S. Do you really think our imperfect America is as bad as most other imperfect countries? And Cuba? It is a totalitarian prison camp which has persecuted its own, including artists, politicals, homosexuals. Are you so charmed by Castro’s dancing that you have forgotten all this?
I'm afraid Chesler will find there is no water to be drawn from the well, only wormwood.
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In Front Page Magazine, Phyllis Chesler opines:President Obama’s election is due, in part, to the desire among many American liberals and leftists to be seen as “atoning” for the sin of racism and the crimes of slavery. The fact that Obama is bi-racial—his...
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Phyllis Chesler: Turning a blind eye to Islam’s brutal treatment of womenMy feminist generation believed in universal human rights — one standard for all. I still do. Therefore, I have taken a strong stand against the persecution of immigrant...
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Actually, I can't say I've ever read any of her books, but those with common sense, her current intentions should raise some eyebrows. From the AP/LeHigh Valley Express-Times: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who...
- Obama's Church Published Letter Accusing Israel Of Developing Ethnic Bomb
From Israel Matzav: This letter to Oprah Winfrey, a one-time member of Barack Hussein Obama's church, was published in the church newsletter on June 10, 2007. I do know that Mr. Mandela, who is probably the most respected man on Earth today, is your...
- Why Does The Left Identity With Islamic Fascists?
A feminist wakes up to the fact the Hezbollah isn’t a feminist’s best friend. Sarah Baxter writes: As a supporter of the peace movement in the 1980s, I could never have imagined that many of the same crowd I hung out with then would today...